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Saturday, April 10, 2021

DWR announce revolutionary new method for decontaminating boats

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Clean Wake LLC, the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and other partnering agencies are excited to announce a new first-of-its-kind dip tank method that will revolutionize boat decontamination in the fight against invasive quagga mussel.

Decontamination diptank for boats

The idea for this new decontamination method had been discussed internally within the DWR for nearly a decade, but had remained an abstract concept until almost five years ago when Garrett Atwood — creator of the new patent-pending dip tank and founder of Clean Wake LLC — took a boating trip to Lake Powell.

"I was waiting in the quagga mussel inspection line with other boaters who were trying to leave Lake Powell," Atwood said. "I watched as the DWR staff worked in extreme heat to decontaminate boats of all shapes and sizes, many of which had intake systems that were far from standardized. It seemed like a time-consuming and challenging process, and I thought there had to be a better way."

Atwood began a collaboration with the DWR aquatic invasive species team. After nearly a year of engineering and fabricating, the dip tank was created, complete with a tank, pumphouse, and heating and filtration system. The new tank will be transported from Ogden to Lake Powell, where it will be installed at the Stateline Launch Ramp at Wahweap Marina and will be operational beginning May 1.

Rather than requiring personnel to climb around and under boats to manually spray hot water during inspections and decontaminations, the dip tank allows boaters to back their watercraft into the 14-foot wide, 5-foot deep tank of 110-degree water to more effectively and thoroughly flush complex intake systems. The dip tank includes built-in guiding tracks to help boaters back their watercraft into the tank. The filtration and pump system will turn over the water in the tank every two hours to keep it clean. The whole decontamination will only take about five minutes.

"This new system will be a tremendous asset in our efforts to stop the spread of invasive quagga mussels," DWR Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator Nate Owens said. "It will involve decontaminating boats with complex systems much faster, will require less training for our staff, will be more effective at ridding complex systems of quagga mussels and will ensure less damage to boats. We are so grateful for the ingenuity of Clean Wake LLC, our partnership with various agencies and the legislative funding and support that have made this possible. This is the first time this method is being used anywhere in the U.S., and we are excited to partner with the National Park Service at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area to create a better experience for boaters at Lake Powell."

While the new dip tank will be utilized beginning this summer at Lake Powell, it will primarily be used for wakeboard boats with complex systems. The standard hot-water spot decontaminations will still be utilized for other boats leaving Lake Powell. The dip tank and standard decontaminations are free to boaters.

Anyone with watercraft — including kayaks, canoes and paddle boards — is required to stop at open aquatic invasive species inspection stations after leaving a waterbody. Anyone who doesn't stop is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

"We are finding floating mussels and mussel shells that stick to boats as they are retrieved from the water at Lake Powell, so it is absolutely crucial for all boaters to comply with these inspections and to do your part to clean, drain and dry your boat or seek professional decontamination," Bruce Johnson, DWR aquatic invasive species statewide operations lieutenant, said. "If quagga mussels get into water delivery systems in Utah, it will cost millions of dollars annually to remove them and keep the pipes clear, which could result in higher utility bills for every resident."

You must do the following to decontaminate your boat if you choose not to have a professional hot water decontamination done:

Clean: Boaters must wipe all water, mud, plant materials and other debris from their boats. In particular, make sure to inspect and clean the anchor and empty the sea strainer of all mussel fragments. Sea strainers should remain disconnected until you are ready to launch your boat again.

Drain: Boaters are required by law to pull all drain plugs and leave them out during transport in Utah. All water should be completely drained from ballast tanks, bilges and live wells. Boaters with outboard or inboard/outboard engines should drop the lower unit to drain those areas, as well.

Dry: All boats with ballast tanks, inboard engines or inboard/outboard engines retain water at all times, and therefore, will need to meet a 30-day dry time if not professionally decontaminated.

As a reminder, there is a mandatory $20 fee for all motorized boats not registered in Utah that are used anywhere in Utah. In order to pay the fee, owners of boats not registered in Utah will first be required to complete an online education course about preventing the spread of quagga mussels. A link to that online course and the payment portal is available on the STD of the Sea website.

Flaming Clouds

Photo by Carol Ann Dyer

 

Garden City Fire District Board meeting

Leonard O'Reilly, Reporter
Rich civic Times                         

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  April 7th, 2021.  Randall Knight presided. One board member was absent. Board member Laura Cluff welcomed back after a long absence caring for her husband.

Chief Wahlberg gave a construction update on the addition. Yet to be done is the  flooring.

Further amendments to the Policy and Procedures and the employee Handbook were discussed.

Chief Wahlberg has found a truck to replace the existing Rescue 40. It will be picked up from Western New York.

A discussion was had concerning asking for funds from TRT, Transient Room Tax, to defray the costs involved with water operations for the coming season.

The responses for the month were: 

1 - Multi Aid assist with fire in Fish Haven

5 - Medical calls

1 -Carbon Monoxide call

2 - Fire calls

16 - Short term rental inspections

NOTICE : The large white ladder truck sitting outside the station is up for sale.

Morgan H. Jackson 1942 - 2021

 Morgan H. Jackson was born November 2, 1942 in Randolph, Utah to Elmo and Isabell (Jones) Jackson. He passed away April 5, 2021 in Randolph Utah.


Morgan graduated from Rich County High School in 1961.  He went to work for the Forest Service as a Range Tech from 1963 to 1976.  He worked the Phosphate Mines. Returning to his true passion as a Range Tech for the Forest Service.  His goal was to make it 50 years with the Forest Service, he made 48.

He married Bonnie Williams June 8, 1963; they had 5 children.  They later divorced.  He was a cowboy in the truest sense preferring horseback to any other mode of transportation. He was a lover of the great outdoors going fishing, camping, and gardening.  He was proudest of his family.

Morgan will be greatly missed by his children, Robert Jackson, Randy (Jessie) Jackson, Wendy Jackson-Hill, Wanda Britsen; as well as brother and best friend ; Elmo (Judy) Jackson; sisters, Karma Gilmore, Myrtle (Loren) Jackson, Belva (Deloy) Richman; grandchildren, Tyler (April) Jackson, Morgan Trent (Shannon) Jackson, Tiana (Tony) Gifford, Michaela Hill, Kenny Hill, Cheyann (Cy) Wright, Abbigail Jackson, Trystan, Dale, Morgan, and William Jackson, Jonathan (Sarah) Britsch, Robert Britsch; 8 great grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.  He is joined in heaven by his parents, son Kenny Jackson, brother, Marvin Jackson, sisters, Marjorie Gilmore, Ada Jackson, son in law, Daniel Britsch, brothers in law, Fred Gilmore and Lloyd Gilmore and his Horse Smokey.  To dad a stranger was just a friend he had not met yet.

Funeral services were held at 1:00 pm Saturday, April 10, 2021 at Crandall Funeral Home, 800 Uinta Street, Evanston.  Visitation was Friday evening from 6:00 pm till 8:00 pm and one hour to services also at Crandall Funeral Home.  Sympathies may be expressed to the family at www.crandallfhevanston.com 

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Loa Putnam Madsen 1925 - 2021

Loa Putnam Madsen, 95 of Lewisville, Idaho passed beyond the veil April 3, 2021 after suffering a massive stroke.  She was surrounded by family members and had expressed her wishes to go Home to her Heavenly Father and her family members who had gone on before her.


Loa was born 17 August 1925 the sixth of nine children born to John Melvin Putnam and Rosabelle Hoggan on their ranch near woodruff, Utah.  Times were tough but the people were even tougher and were equal to the task of the harsh area.  No electricity or running water.  Light was provided by kerosene Lamps and the outhouse was supplied with Sears and Roebuck catalogs.  The family always had a large herd of milk cows and Loa was the lead milker.

Loa attended 1st through 8th grades at Woodruff Elementary and developed a great love for reading.  Her mother always read to her children every night around the living room table.  She went to 9th and 10th grade at South Rich High School in Randolph, Utah and then to Rock Springs, Wyoming,  her Junior year to live with her older sister Genevieve and her husband Clarence Meacham.  World War II broke out and the last half of her senior year she returned home to help on the ranch as her two brothers were in the service.  She graduated as salutatorian of her class and played center on the basketball team.

Loa met her future husband at a town dance in Woodruff.  Jesse was visiting his sister and her husband when Loa saw him dancing.  She told her girlfriend, Joy Kiddy, “he’s the one I’m going to marry”.  Jesse Madsen and Loa Putnam were married in the Salt Lake Temple March 17th 1944.  They moved back to the old homestead in Lewisville and began their family which consists of five children.  Gary, Sandra, Randy, Tamra and Michele. 

On March 20th 1969, just three days after their 25th wedding anniversary, she was dealt with the hardest task she had to face in life.  The Lord took her sweetheart, confidant, companion and friend home to rest.  Work was her salvation as she once again found herself in the fields and back in the cow barn.

The church was her salvation as she was called to serve others as Ward and Stake Relief Society President.  In 1982 she received a call from President Spencer W. Kimball to serve a mission in the Raleigh, North Carolina Mission.  After a successful Mission she came home and found employment at the Idaho Falls Temple where she served as supervisor of the linens area.  She held that position for thirteen and never missed a day of work except for the two months when she broke her ankle.

Loa is survived by a daughter: Michele (Tony) Nef of Leadore, two sons Gary (DeAnn) Madsen and Randy (Karen) Madsen of Lewisville, two sisters: Mary Argyle and Clarine Osborn of Randolph, Utah, two brothers: Howard Putnam of St. George, Utah and Jack Putnam of Boise, Idaho.

She was preceded in death by her husband Jesse Madsen, Her parents, sisters Geneive Meacham and Mildred Wettstein, brothers Kenneth and Willis Putnam, and two daughters Tamra Hanson and Sandra Ball.

She leaves a legacy of 19 grandchildren, 63 great grandchildren and 9 great-great grandchildren.

A viewing was be held Thursday April 8th 2021 at 9:00 a.m. at the Lewisville Church in Lewisville with funeral following at 11:00 a.m.  


Monday, April 5, 2021

Eighteen Wheeler Philosophy

Eerie in Indianer

By Mel Hansen

Coming across Indiana this morning I was deathly dreading driving through Indianapolis, as I always do. I pulled out the hand wipes and wiped all my fingers, the nasty taste of the sanitizer helps keep me from gnawing on my fingernails... and prepared for the bumper to bumper crazy traffic, all the cement potholes to hell that plague that Godforsaken hell hole!


About a third of the way through Indianapolis I began to notice that traffic was surprisingly very light! No bumper to bumper traffic, very few cars and light trucks, mostly just us big rigs...and plenty of room to dodge the potholes leading to hell! I began to think I was either dreaming or in a episode of “The Twilight Zone”.

Halfway through Indianapolis there began to come over the CB radio comments from other truckers noticing the same thing I was.  One trucker even asking if we were in Indy or in another time? His question was immediately answered with a bunch of... “Shut the hell up ya dumb bastard!...before ya jinx us all! Whether in a different time or in the Twilight Zone, just be grateful for what’s happening!”

I made it through Indy in record time. Without a nasty taste of hand cleaner sanitizer in my mouth... and my fingernails still growing!

God's Painting

Photo by Tammy Calder

 

COVID 19 Vaccines given in Bear River Health District

 No new deaths reported.

COVID-19 Vaccine Breakdown

Region
1st Dose Pfizer
2nd Dose Pfizer
1st Dose Moderna
2nd Dose Moderna
Single Dose J&J
Total Doses
Box Elder
9929
6381
3530
2052
315
22207
Cache
26607
16512
9722
4934
1171
58946
Rich
228
99
523
324
57
1231
Bear River
36764
22992
13775
7310
1543
82384
Data Notes
This table shows the breakdown of COVID-19 vaccines administered to residents by vaccine type and dose.
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Bear Lake State Park "glamping"

New for the summer of 2021: Bear Lake State Park is partnering with Tentrr to provide 10 "glamour" camping tent campsites around the park.

Tentrr is looking to hire a new team member to manage their 10 campsites in Bear Lake State Park!

Responsibilities include managing reservations, checking in campers and maintaining the site and associated equipment.
Please email chelsea@tentrr.com for more information!